Re: OT: PerlOS---the horrible, horrible dream

From: Sandy Harris (sandy@storm.ca)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 23:46:37 EST


Kevin Buhr wrote:
>
> I had a nightmare last night.
>
> See, Perl 6 had been released, and it wasn't a standalone
> interpreter---it was a free POSIX wannabe implemented entirely in
> Perl. ...
 
> Alan, together with Alexander Viro, were ganging up on me, making fun
> of me and telling me that you *had* to trust your users because there
> was no way to secure the system from someone who could log in.

It's OK. Theo's doing a secure BSD that trusts no-one, in Common LISP.

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